Dominic Riccitello

“I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too.”

“All of my bad ideas were always my best.”

“If you’re in a relationship and find yourself constantly using “we” instead of “I” - stop. You are more than your relationship.”

“Your intuition speaks on a higher plane than anything you’ll ever grasp.”

“He was beautiful and still is, we just couldn’t flow within the same constellation.”

“It was perfect, but perfection is terrifying.”

“When you know, you know and it flows in your mind like waves. Coming forward as it pulls with the tide. It brings anxiety, terror, and it’s beyond anything plausible.”

“We were in ways I can’t seem to grasp. We moved like fluid, scattering our love throughout each other. We moved along, out of our eyes and through our veins. It was unintentionally and in turn, unconditionally.”

“The hard part wasn’t breaking up. The hard part is forcing myself to fall out of love with you.”

“The meaning of life is to die living it.”

“I pushed him against his Jeep, looked him dead in the eye and kissed him. He asked if he could come up, and I just walked up the steps and said, not yet. That was the moment I knew I loved him.”

“I don’t remember his face or the place we ate. I only remember how he grabbed my hand and his voice when he spoke of his dad.”

“Maybe the problem isn’t everything and everyone around you, but what lies within you.”

“When you look in the mirror, do you look at yourself or for yourself?”

“I danced as he twirled in and out of consciousness, and there we were, one in love and the other astray.”

“I stopped writing in a way they would understand because it wasn’t for them or even him. It was for I to understand, for I to make sense, and for I to let go of it.”

“I smell him in intervals, in varieties, in ways I don’t quite understand.”

“Don’t break my heart. Crush it. Destroy it. Let me wallow it until I feel hollow in it. I’ll bash in the pain. I’ll scream your name and then one day I suddenly won’t.”

“It wasn’t worth it, but at the time it was. And that’s all that mattered.”

“You don’t get over it. You move past it. You move through it. You lose yourself to find it, and when found, it’s yours and no longer theirs.”